The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-22

being drawn up and tied over her head.
The woman had been staying in the fam
lilies of William Trendall, an Englishman,
and John Sugland, a negro. She was last
seen in Sugland's company on the railroad
track Friday. The testimony of Sugand's
children show that he and the deceased had
an alteration some day last week, when he
knocked her over the table. Her pocket
book was found in her stocking and her
iewelry was intact Sugland is wood
chopper. The body was taken in charge by
the Brattleboro authorities, who are taking
steps to apprehend the suspected murderer.
SOME 1000 people attended the dedication
of the soldiers monument at Brattleboro
the 18th. Nermont's war governor, Fred
erick Holhrook acted as president, and Cor
poral James Tanner of Brooklyn, n. Y,
gave the Grafton. The First Regiment band
headed the procession, which was made up of
the Estey Guard, as escort to Governor Orms-
bee, Tyler Post, Sons of Veterans, Grand
Army posts from Brattleboro, London
derry Townshend, Chester, Wilmington,
Jamaica, Putney, Windsor, Springfield and
Weston in Vermont, and posts from Keene,
Winchester and Hinsdale in New Hamp-
shire, and CantOns of Odd Fellows from
Brattlehoro, Northampton, Shelburne Falls,
Bellows Falls, bands and the Fuller Light
Battery. Officers of the National Guard
were present and the post commanders of
the Grand Army of Vermont and citizens.
The monument is located on the village
common and is of Dummerston granite 1t
has bronze tablets and is thirty feet high,
surmounted by "A bronze soldiers statue, the
whole costing nearly $4,000.
In General.
GENERAL FITz JOHN PORTER is said to be
seriously i'll.
THE loss by the floods in Hungary is put
at S5,0O0000.
ANOTHER earthquake has been felt in
South Carolina.
Mr.. BLAINE visited the house of commons
Friday evening.
A CRISIS in the affairs of Plymouth church
is fast approaching.
THE will of eX-Vice-president William A.
Wheeler is to he contested.
SEVERAL grain firms at Duluth have gone
down with the wheat crash.
EARTHQUAKES were felt Monday in
Smyrna and the Island of Scio.
THE Masonic Grand Lodge of Dakota has
decided not to admit saloon-keepers
Born branches of the Massachusetts legis-
lature were adjourned last Thursday.
OVER one hundred pilgrims were drowned
while crossing the Danube, near Paks
THERE has been serious election riots in
Hungary, several persons being killed.
THE village of Washburn, Woodford
county, H., was wiped out by fire Saturday.
AMBULANCEs are ordered to be stationed
at different points of the jubilee procession
in London.
THERE is but little change to report in
the condition of general trade throughout
the country.
THE President is arranging to take another
vacation of a few days in West Virginia
next month.
MAYOR ROCHE has shut up every gambling
house in Chicago and says he will keep
them closed.
THE Robert f. Lee Camp of Virginia Vet
Grams left Boston for home delighted with
their reception
THE heat in Illinois Monday was intense.
The country has been swept by gale that
damaged grain.
THE King of Greece and the King of Den
mark have arrived in London to take part
in the Queens jubilee.
A STATUE of Nathan Hale, the revou-
tionary hero, was formally unveiled at
| Hartford Ct, last week.
/ AN inventor named Sherman, exhibiting
an automatic railway signal at Utica, had
his head cut off by train.
SHARP, the boodler," is now lodged in
| Ludlow street Jail, in the same room that
| Boss Tweed once occupied.
DANIEL PRATT known as "The Great
| American Traveller" died in Boston, Mon
day, aged seventy-eight years.
THE supreme court of Missouri has de.
cided not to reverse the decision in the case
of Maxwell, and he must hang.
Mr.. OBRIEN, editor of JnHed Feload
/ who arrived at Queenstown Friday from
/ New York, received an ovation.
THE ParnelliteS left the house of commons
| Friday night and amid confusion the crimes
bill passed the committee stage.
ANN CRooKEs, poor girl living in East
/ Orange, \. j., has fallen heir TO SOL 600 by
/ the death of an uncle in Ireland.
THE Rhode Island legislature adjourned
/ without having accomplished any business
because of the partisan deadlock
THE lord mayor of London gave a ban
| Quet Saturday to two hundred representa-
tives of literature, science and art.
SINCLAIR TousEY, for many years presi
dent of the American News Company died
/ Thursday, aged seVenty-two years.
SARAH BERNHARDT sailed for Europe Sat
| urday on the " City of Richmond She i,
advertised to play at Cork June 2Sth.
THE Spanish government has warned tn,
military officials to expect further revolu
tionary movements during the summer.
JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG, ex-Unted State,
minister to China, was elected president OF
the Anti-pOverty Society of Philadelphia
THE venerable DR.. Mark Hopkins, ex
president of Williams College, died at Will
JAMESTOWN, Mass, Friday, in his seth year
THE Maine Medical Society passed resou
lions condemning Governor Bodwell for his
informal veto of the law against quacks,'
MR. BLAINE arrived at Southampton
Thursday. He emphatically refused to dis
close his programme. All his party are well
THERE has been great conhagration il
Botuschany, Roumania. Eight hundred
houses We're destroyed and seven persons
killed.
THE Jake " Sharp jury in New York i,
now surely complete barring new discov
eries-and the opening of the trial actually
begun.
MANUEL NOEL, a French-Canadian, age,
fifty years, of Laconia, y, H., ate over ont
pound of raw beef-steal and died in thirty
minutes.
LEADING European newspapers contain
articles reviewing Nictorias reign, Tn
German papers are especially warm in thei
comments.
THE London police have discovered
dynamite plot against the Queen, whicl
was to be connsummated during the jubilee
celebration.
An epidemic called Sandman fever
prevails along the western coast of Mexico
1t resembles yellow fever and proves fata
in most cases.
THRTY-FIvE persons have been exclude
from a Methodist church in Cincinnati 70
worshiping two women who pretended I
work miracles
The first train to run any distance wit